Comments on: Blogging PDs: A dying art? http://pdstuff.apublicdefender.com/2009/09/12/blogging-pds-a-dying-art/ Indigent defense news, delivered fresh daily Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:46:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jen http://pdstuff.apublicdefender.com/2009/09/12/blogging-pds-a-dying-art/comment-page-1/#comment-56860 Jen Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:35:42 +0000 http://pdstuff.apublicdefender.com/2009/09/12/blogging-pds-a-dying-art/#comment-56860 Yeah, I have to say.. I became worried about being found out and having to face clients, judges over what I said or not said. Yeah, I have to say.. I became worried about being found out and having to face clients, judges over what I said or not said.

]]> By: Why I have not been writing about work lately. . . . « Between A Laugh And A Tear http://pdstuff.apublicdefender.com/2009/09/12/blogging-pds-a-dying-art/comment-page-1/#comment-56831 Why I have not been writing about work lately. . . . « Between A Laugh And A Tear Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:10:25 +0000 http://pdstuff.apublicdefender.com/2009/09/12/blogging-pds-a-dying-art/#comment-56831 [...] 13, 2009 donzell Leave a comment Go to comments Ambimb at PD Stuff wrote an article entitled, “Blogging PDs: A dying art?” where he (as an aside, I don’t know if ambimb is a guy or a gal, but I am just using the [...] [...] 13, 2009 donzell Leave a comment Go to comments Ambimb at PD Stuff wrote an article entitled, “Blogging PDs: A dying art?” where he (as an aside, I don’t know if ambimb is a guy or a gal, but I am just using the [...]

]]> By: imapd http://pdstuff.apublicdefender.com/2009/09/12/blogging-pds-a-dying-art/comment-page-1/#comment-56731 imapd Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:23:31 +0000 http://pdstuff.apublicdefender.com/2009/09/12/blogging-pds-a-dying-art/#comment-56731 this is truly sad...i loved reading arbitrary's posts! as for me, i stopped posting because (even though I said that I would blog no matter what) at my new PD gig, the bar is way, way too small to get away with posting the way I did before. i would definitely find myself at the other end of an ABA ethics violation warning, but more importantly, i worry that my clients would suffer if the prosecutors/judges/cops i work "with" read what i had to say. of course, they sort of already hate me anyway because i'm still up to the same smart-*ss PD shenanigans i was in my previous job (wahoo!) but to post my thoughts, then to have to answer for them to the very people i would most likely be talking about? for one thing, i'm certain some would be vicious and vindictive toward my clients, and for another, it'd be like asking proven cheaters to grade their own exams: they'd get A's every time. very complicated, and i don't think i could do it without making a big, fat mess of it. so...without plausible deniability, the blogging in this jurisdiction is a no go. am i folding under the pressure? i dunno. if so, i hope at least it's the right kind of pressure--the kind that puts client first--but it may just be the chicken sh*t in me...i hope it's enough to keep supporting the PDs who find a way to pull it off. i'm open to suggestions, though, on how to get going again. maybe someone else has some pointers? this is truly sad…i loved reading arbitrary’s posts! as for me, i stopped posting because (even though I said that I would blog no matter what) at my new PD gig, the bar is way, way too small to get away with posting the way I did before. i would definitely find myself at the other end of an ABA ethics violation warning, but more importantly, i worry that my clients would suffer if the prosecutors/judges/cops i work “with” read what i had to say.

of course, they sort of already hate me anyway because i’m still up to the same smart-*ss PD shenanigans i was in my previous job (wahoo!) but to post my thoughts, then to have to answer for them to the very people i would most likely be talking about? for one thing, i’m certain some would be vicious and vindictive toward my clients, and for another, it’d be like asking proven cheaters to grade their own exams: they’d get A’s every time. very complicated, and i don’t think i could do it without making a big, fat mess of it.

so…without plausible deniability, the blogging in this jurisdiction is a no go.

am i folding under the pressure? i dunno. if so, i hope at least it’s the right kind of pressure–the kind that puts client first–but it may just be the chicken sh*t in me…i hope it’s enough to keep supporting the PDs who find a way to pull it off. i’m open to suggestions, though, on how to get going again. maybe someone else has some pointers?

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